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INTRODUCTION

Work with a Top 20 CPA and advisory firm that Accounts for Anything. Aprio has 40 U.S. office locations, as well as international office locations and more than 3,200 team members that speak 60+ languages across the globe. By bringing together proven expertise, deep understanding, and strategic foresight for fast-growing industries, Aprio ensures clients are prepared for wherever life or business may take them. Discover a top-rated culture, vast growth opportunities and your next big career move with Aprio.

JOB SUMMARY

Aprio Wealth Management is seeking an Operations Analyst to own the investment data foundation that drives performance and client reporting across the firm's advisory platform. In this role, you will serve as the frontline steward of pricing, transactions, and asset classification — the inputs that make performance outputs meaningful and defensible. You will administer alternative investment operations, run the performance reconciliation cycle, and partner directly with advisors to investigate and resolve data questions with precision. This is a high-ownership role for someone energized by data integrity, analytical rigor, and ensuring that every number reaching a client is right.

WHAT YOU'LL GAIN / IMPACT:

• Frontline ownership of the investment data infrastructure that directly shapes client reporting and advisor trust.
• Deep, hands-on exposure to performance reporting methodology, alternative investment administration, and portfolio accounting.
• Opportunity to operate and contribute to Python-based operational tools in a modern, evolving environment.
• Meaningful visibility across the Aprio Wealth Management platform through close partnership with advisors and leadership.
• A strong foundation to grow toward performance, compliance, or operations leadership within a high-growth wealth management firm.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Administer daily pricing: monitor exceptions, source and validate prices for instruments not covered by automated feeds, and document the source for each.
• Maintain the security master and asset classification, ensuring every instrument maps to the firm's sanctioned classification vocabulary with an authoritative source behind it.
• Review corporate actions, security identifier changes, mergers, and other events that can create pricing or transaction breaks; confirm downstream records are corrected consistently.
• Maintain data-quality exception queues for securities, prices, classifications, and transactions, prioritizing issues based on client-reporting and performance impact.
• Administer transaction and valuation updates for alternative holdings and post capital account statement values on the reporting cycle.
• Reconcile alternative investment values to manager statements and maintain documentation supporting each valuation.
• Maintain a current inventory of alternative holdings, valuation dates, source documents, and stale-price exceptions so missing updates are visible before the reporting cycle closes.
• Escalate stale, unsupported, or inconsistent valuations with a documented recommendation for treatment and disclosure in reporting.
• Run the monthly, quarterly, and year-to-date performance reconciliation cycle; validate returns at household, account, and composite level before release.
• Investigate return anomalies to root cause and document findings clearly.
• Produce and quality-check client reporting packages; compare current-period returns, balances, and flows to prior periods and benchmarks to identify outliers before reports are released.
• Document material performance adjustments and restatements so the original issue, correction, affected population, and final outcome are fully traceable.
• Serve as the first point of contact for advisor questions on performance, holdings, and classification.
• Operate the team's Python-based operational tools in production, test enhancements, and contribute requirements.
• Maintain SOPs for every recurring process you own.

CANDIDATE QUALIFICATIONS:

• Two or more years of experience in investment operations, portfolio accounting, performance reporting, or reconciliation.
• Hands-on daily reconciliation experience on a portfolio accounting or performance reporting platform.
• Working knowledge of securities and investment terminology across equities, fixed income, and funds.
• Advanced Excel skills, including lookups, pivot tables, and large-file analysis.
• Strong analytical instinct with the discipline to find the upstream cause before reporting a result.

PREFERRED:

• Experience with portfolio accounting or reporting platforms such as Orion, Tamarac, Addepar, Black Diamond, Advyzon, APX, or Geneva.
• Alternative investment administration experience, including capital calls, distributions, and capital account statements.
• Understanding of time-weighted and money-weighted return methodologies and awareness of GIPS principles.
• Familiarity with public reference sources such as SEC EDGAR, OpenFIGI, or MSRB EMMA.
• Progress toward CIPM or CAIA designation.
• Comfort with AI-assisted or data tools such as Copilot, Claude, GPT, Python, SQL, or Power Query — not required, and can be developed here.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent working experience.

WHY WORK FOR APRIO:

Whether you are just starting out, looking to advance into management or searching for your next leadership role, Aprio offers an opportunity to grow with a future-focused, innovative firm.

PERKS/BENEFITS WE OFFER FOR FULL-TIME TEAM MEMBERS:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance on the first day of employment
• Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Care Account
• 401k with Profit Sharing
• 9+ holidays and discretionary time off structure
• Parental Leave – coverage for both primary and secondary caregivers
• Tuition Assistance Program and CPA support program with cash incentive upon completion
• Discretionary incentive compensation based on firm, group and individual performance
• Incentive compensation related to origination of new client sales
• Top rated wellness program
• Flexible working environment including remote and hybrid options

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU:

• Working with an industry leader: Be part of a high-growth firm that is passionate for what’s next.
• An awesome culture: Thirty-one fundamental behaviors guide our culture every day ensuring we always deliver an exceptional team-member and client experience. We call it the Aprio Way. This shared mindset creates lasting relationships between team members and with clients.
• A great team: Work with a high-energy, passionate, caring and ambitious team of professionals in a collaborative culture.
• Entrepreneurship: Have the freedom to innovate and bring your ideas to help us grow to become the CPA firm of choice nationally.
• Growth opportunities: Grow professionally in an environment that fosters continuous learning and advancement.
• Competitive compensation: You will be rewarded with competitive compensation, industry-leading benefits and a flexible work environment to enjoy work/life balance.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Aprio is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; religion; national origin; sex; pregnancy; sexual orientation; gender identity and/or expression; age; disability; genetic information, citizenship status; military service obligations or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Aprio, LLP and Aprio Advisory Group, LLC, operate in an alternative business structure, with Aprio Advisory Group, LLC providing non-attest tax and consulting services, and Aprio, LLP providing CPA firm services.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.